Five years ago, we wrote about a team of Japanese scientists who predicted they would successfully clone a woolly mammoth within five years. So, why don’t we have a living mammoth yet? Even though the project has not been successful to date — the quest has continued. Here are a few of the milestones that have occurred since we published the story (in full below) about the project. In 2013, a woolly mammoth carcass, nicknamed “Buttercup,” was… read more